Publications

Publications related to the VITALAS project

The semantics of query modification. Vera Hollink, Theodora Tsikrika, and Arjen P. de Vries. 9th international conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information RIAO 2010, 28-30 April, 2010 - Paris, France.

Semantic vs term-based query modification analysis. Vera Hollink, Theodora Tsikrika, and Arjen P. de Vries. In Proceedings of the 10th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2010), 25 January 2010, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Techniken für die Suche in audiovisuellen Medien - Vitalas - ein neues System zur Inhaltssuche. Peter Altendorf, Henning Rode, Daniel Schneider, Jochen Schon. In FKT, Fachzeitschrift für Fernsehen, Film und elektronische Medien, ISSN: 1430-9947, pp 701 - 704, 12/2009.

Lexicon Adaptation for Subword Speech Recognition. Procedings of IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, ASRU 2009, Merano, Italy, 13-17 December 2009. Timo Mertens, Daniel Schneider, Arild Brandrud Næss and Torbjørn Svendsen.

Overview of the TREC 2009 Entity Track, K. Balog, A. P. de Vries, P. Serdyukov, P. Thomas, and T. Westerveld. In: TREC 2009 Working Notes, November 2009.

VITALAS at TRECVID-2009. C. Diou, G. Stephanopoulos, N. Dimitriou, P. Panagiotopoulos, C. Papachristou, A. Delopoulos, H. Rode, T. Tsikrika, A. P. de Vries, D. Schneider, J. Schwenninger, M.-L. Viaud, A. Saulnier, P. Altendorf, B. Schröter, M. Elser, A. Rego, A. Rodriguez, C. Martínez, I. Etxaniz, G. Dupont, B. Grilhères, N. Martin, N. Boujemaa, A. Joly, R. Enficiaud, A. Verroust, S. Selmi, M. Khadhraoui. In Proceedings of the 7th TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop (TRECVID 2009), 16-17 November, Gaithersburg, USA.

Unsupervised Extraction of Keywords from New Archives. Palomino, M.A Oakes, M.P & Wuytack T. Proceedings of LTC'09 pp 422-426, 4^th Language & Technology Conference, 6-8 November 2009, Poznan, Poland.

Logo Retrieval with A Contrario Visual Query Expansion. In ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2009, Beijing, 19-23 October 2009. A Joly, & O.Buisson.

Interactive objects retrieval with efficient boosting. In ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2009, Beijing, 19-23 October 2009. S Litayem, A Joly and N. Boujemaa.

Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology. Mragowo, Poland, 12-14 October 2009. Palomino, M.A, Oakes, M.P. & Wuytack, T. An Evaluation of Concept Suggestion Strategies for Professional Multimedia Archives, pp. 265-271.

Overview of the wikipediaMM task at ImageCLEF 2009. Theodora Tsikrika and Jana Kludas. In Multilingual Information Access Evaluation Vol. II Multimedia Experiments -- Proceedings of  the 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2009), Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2010.

CWI at the Photo Retrieval task of ImageCLEF 2009. Theodora Tsikrika and Arjen P. de Vries. In the Working Notes for the 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2009), 30 September - 2 October 2009, Corfu, Greece.

Are clickthrough data reliable as image annotations? Theodora Tsikrika, Christos Diou, Arjen P. de Vries, and Anastasios Delopoulos. In Proceedings of the Theseus/ImageCLEF workshop on visual information retrieval evaluation, 29 September 2009, Corfu, Greece.

Using Search Logs to Recommend Images to New Users. Xu, Y. and Oakes, M.P. Presented at the 7th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR), 24-25 September 2009, Madrid, Spain.

Merging Search Spaces for Subword Spoken Term Detection. Proceedings of ISCA Interspeech, Brighton, UK, 6-10 September 2009. Timo Mertens, Daniel Schneider and Joachim Köhler.

Image annotation using clickthrough data. Theodora Tsikrika, Christos Diou, Arjen P. de Vries, and Anastasios Delopoulos. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, 8-10 July 2009, Santorini, Greece.

Using annotation labor for concept selection. Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, and Arjen P. de Vries. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, 8-10 July 2009, Santorini, Greece.

Efficient Subword Lattice Retrieval for German Spoken Term Detection. Accepted for IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2009, Taipei, Taiwan, 19-24 April 2009. Timo Mertens and Daniel Schneider.

Automatic extraction of keywords for a multimedia search engine using the chi-square test. 9th Dutch-Belgian Information retrieval workshop (DIR 2009). Enschede, The Netherlands, 2-3 February 2009. PP 3-10. Palomino MA, Oakes M P + Waytack Tom (2009).

Audio Data Retrieval and Recognition Using Model Selection Criterion. In: Wysocki, Beata J. (Ed.) et al.: 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ICSPCS 2008, DSPCS 2008, WITSP 2008, 15-17 December 2008, Gold Coast, Australia. New York, NY [u.a.]: IEEE, 2008. Konstantin Biatov, Wolfgang Hesseler, Joachim Koehler.

Efficient XML and entity retrieval with PF/Tijah: CWI and University of Twente at INEX’08, 7th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, 15-18 December 2008, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany. Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra, Arjen P. de Vries and Pavel Serdyukov.

In Advances in Focused Retrieval, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2008), Revised and Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 5653, pp. 207-217, Springer 2009.

VITALAS at TRECVID 2008. Christos Diou, Christos Papachristou, Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, George Stephanopoulos, Nikos Dimitriou, Anastasios Delopoulos, Henning Rode, Robin Aly, Arjen P. de Vries, and Theodora Tsikrika. In Proceedings of the 6th TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop (TRECVID 2008), 17-18 November 2008, Gaithersburg, USA.

The Lowlands team at TRECVID 2008. Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Arjen P. de Vries, and Henning Rode. In Proceedings of the 6th TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop (TRECVID 2008), 17-18 November 2008, Gaithersburg, USA.

A posteriori Multi Probe Locality Sensitive Hashing. A. Joly and. Joly O. Buisson. In ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Vancouver, Canada, 27-31 October 2008.
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CWI at ImageCLEF 2008. Theodora Tsikrika, Henning Rode and Arjen P. de Vries. In the Working Notes for the 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2008), 17-19 September 2008, Aarhus, Denmark.

Overview of the wikipediaMM task at ImageCLEF 2008. Theodora Tsikrika and Jana Kludas. In Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access -- Proceedings of the 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2008), Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 5706, pp. 539-550, Springer, 2009.

Towards Large Scale Vocabulary Independent Spoken Term Detection: Advances in the Fraunhofer IAIS Audiomining System. In Proceedings of the SIGIR Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech, Singapore, 20-24 July 2008. Schneider Daniel, Schon Jochen, Eickeler Stefan.

Probabilistic ranking framework using unobservable binary events for video search: Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Arjen P. de Vries, Fransiska M.G. de Jong, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2008), 7-9 July 2008, Niagara Falls, Canada.

The Lowlands team at TRECVID 2007. Robin Aly, Claudia Hauff, Willemijn Heeren, Djoerd Hiemstra, Fransiska M.G. de Jong, Roeland Ordelman, Thijs Verschoor, and Arjen P. de Vries. In Proceedings of the 5th TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop (TRECVID 2007), 5-6 November 2007, Gaithersburg, USA.

New local descripors based on dissociated diples. ACM International conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9-11 July 2007. A Joly.

Interpretability based Interest Point Detection. ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9-11 July 2007 A. Rebai, A. Joly and N. Boujemaa.

Structured document retrieval, multimedia retrieval, and entity ranking using PF/Tijah. Theodora Tsikrika, Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Thijs Westerveld, Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra and Arjen P. de Vries. In Focused access to XML documents, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2007), Revised and Selected papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.4862, pp. 306-320, Springer, 2008.

The INEX 2007 Multimedia track. Theodora Tsikrika and Thijs Westerveld. In Focused access to XML documents, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2007), Revised and Selected papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.4862, pp. 440-453, Springer, 2008.

Multimedia retrieval at INEX 2007.Theodora Tsikrika and Thijs Westerveld. In SIGIR Forum, 42(1), pp. 16-21, June, 2008.

Generative probabilistic models: Thijs Westerveld, Arjen P. de Vries, and Franciska M. G. de Jong. In Multimedia Retrieval, Springer, 2007.

Multimedia search without visual analysis: the value of linguistic and contextual information: Franciska M.G. de Jong, Thijs Westerveld and Arjen P. de Vries. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 17(3):365–371, March 2007. Special Issue on the convergence of knowledge engineering, semantics and signal processing in audiovisual information retrieval.